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Doulas are frontline climate workers

As disasters like extreme heat, flooding, or hurricanes become more common, pregnant people are at higher risk.
Here’s how extreme heat is hurting pregnant women

Here’s how extreme heat is hurting pregnant women

As the world gets hotter, scientists are documenting a spike in preterm and still births, along with underweight babies.
Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children
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Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children

People worried about the climate crisis are deciding not to have children because of fears that their offspring would have to struggle through a climate apocalypse, according to the first academic study of the issue.

Meet the 'birth strikers', who aren't having children for the sake of the planet
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Meet the 'birth strikers', who aren't having children for the sake of the planet

How selfish is having children? Without doubt, our world is oversubscribed, and thinkers including Sir David Attenborough have highlighted population growth as one of the gravest threats to the future of our planet.

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Is it cruel to have kids in the era of climate change?
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Is it cruel to have kids in the era of climate change?

Some argue that bringing children into a decaying world is immoral.
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